Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Belarus and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Smog to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Music Machine. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Terrestrial Tones,
Jacob Miller,
Scott Walker,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Unrelated Segments,
The J.B.'s,
Joe Finger,
The Buckinghams,
Barrington Levy,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Model 500,
Sugar Minott,
Nico,
B.T. Express,
Sight & Sound,
F. McDonald,
The Litter,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fear,
Suicide,
Girls At Our Best!,
Davy DMX,
AZ,
the Slits,
Chris & Cosey,
Gastr Del Sol,
Quadrant,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lindisfarne,
Black Moon,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Barclay James Harvest,
Nils Olav,
Jeru the Damaja,
Motorama,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Arcadia,
Subhumans,
Jerry's Kids,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Vladislav Delay,
Jimmy McGriff,
Matthew Bourne,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lou Christie,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Aural Exciters,
10cc,
David McCallum,
Joyce Sims,
Yusef Lateef,
Marmalade,
Metal Thangz,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sonny Sharrock,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.